Crush It! Quotes

“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Developing your personal brand is the same thing as living and breathing your résumé”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!

“It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!

“skills are cheap, passion is priceless.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!

“Before you invest in yourself, you have to invest in your long-term future.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Developing your personal brand is key to monetizing your passion online.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Building and sustaining community is a never-ending part of doing business.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Know yourself. Choose the right medium, choose the right topic, create awesome content, and you can make a lot of money being happy. the”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Being reactionary means that you’re always thinking about the meaning behind cultural change.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“as long as you’re working for someone else you will never be living entirely true to yourself and your passion.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“true success—financial, personal, and professional—lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“With every e-mail and video and blog post and tweet and status update, we add to the real-time documentary of our lives.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“We’re all in the public eye now, swimming around in a clear glass fish bowl of our own making.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“create your blog post and distribute it through TubeMogul (video) or Ping.fm (links) so that your content appears on every social networking platform available. Next,”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“What exactly are you going to be doing that’s going to be so time and labor intensive? You’ll be studying your topic, researching your platforms, drafting your blog posts, doing whatever it takes to become the foremost expert and personal brand in your field. But most of all, you will be creating a community.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Even the dullest introvert has pizzazz when talking about something he is passionate about,”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“Legacy always wins. My”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“If you’re doing a written blog, sign up for Ping.fm. 8.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“The word-of-mouth power in one interested person has unbelievable reach.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

“One day, I’d like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!

“It’s hard for me to imagine how a $50 million marketing campaign is ever appropriate for any business to launch an ideavirus. If you need to interrupt that many people, you’re doing something wrong.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!

“The mistake that’s so easy to make is to get greedy as you choose your hive, to say, “this product is for everyone” or “anyone can benefit from this idea.” Well, there are seven billion people on the planet, so it’s unlikely your comment is correct; even if it is, there’s little chance that a virus would spread across a hive that big.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!

“Twenty years ago, the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500 either dug something out of the ground or turned a natural resource (iron ore or oil) into something you could hold. Today, fewer than half of the companies on the list do that. The rest make unseemly profits by trafficking in ideas.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!

“The reason Steve Herrell’s shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!

“In creating an ideavirus, the advertiser creates an environment in which the idea can replicate and spread. It’s the virus that does the work, not the marketer.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!

“Have you ever heard of Gmail? Ever used it? If so, it’s not because Gmail ran a lot of TV ads (they didn’t). It’s because the manifesto of free email got to you.”
― Seth Godin, Crush It!